Sentencings have begun for the college admissions scandal, in which federal prosecutors say parents paid about $25 million to get their students into elite schools like the University of Southern California, Stanford, and Yale.

Prosecutors alleged in court documents that Vandemoer accepted $610,000 in bribes to facilitate the admissions of students as salinity recruits. Court documents say the funds were put into Stanford’s sailing program.

Prosecutors had asked a federal judge in Boston to sentence Vandemoer to 13 months in prison.

Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in jail

Felicity Huffman arrives at federal court in Boston to face charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal.

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Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in jail after admitting that she paid $15,000 to have her daughter’s SAT answers falsified as part of the scandal.

Devin Sloane, the founder and chief executive of a drinking water and wastewater systems business in Los Angeles, California, was sentenced to four months in prison, 500 hours of community service, 2 years of supervised release, and has to pay a fine of $95,000.

According to the affidavit, Sloane bought water polo gear of Amazon to stage a photoshoot with his son for a USC application.

Sloane told Singer that he purchased a ball and a cap off of Amazon for the photoshoot in a June 2017 email, court documents said. Sloane’s son did not actually play water polo and his high school did not have a team.

In September, Stephen Semprevivo, a Los Angeles-based executive at a privately held provider of outsourced sales teams, was sentenced to four months in prison, two years of supervised release, 500 hours of community service, and a fine of $100,000.

Semprevivo pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, admitting to paying Singer $400,000 to get his son into Georgetown University as a recruited tennis player.

According to a criminal complaint filed in March, a portion of the funds went to Georgetown’s then-tennis coach Gordon Ernst, who helped facilitate Semprevivo’s son’s recruitment to the school as a tennis player, despite knowing the teen did not play the sport.

“I also need to tell [your daughter] when she gets tested, to be as, to be stupid, not to be as smart as she is,” Singer said, according to court documents. “The goal is to be slow, to be not as bright, all that, so we show discrepancies.”

In recorded phone conversations published in the criminal complaint, Caplan shows concern over being caught on multiple occasions.

After agreeing to plead guilty in April, Caplan released a statement in which he said he takes “full and sole responsibility” for his conduct, according to Bloomberg.

“I want to make clear that my daughter, whom I love more than anything in the world, is a high school junior and has not yet applied to college, much less been accepted by any school. She had no knowledge whatsoever about my actions, has been devastated to learn what I did and has been hurt the most by it,” Caplan said.

The law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher put Caplan on leave after his indictment. It is unclear what his current standing with the firm is.

Huneeus pleaded guilty in May, admitting to paying $300,000 to have his daughter’s SAT score altered and have her designated as a water polo recruit to the University of Southern California. Because of the timing of Huneeus’s indictment, his daughter was never admitted to USC.

Prosecutors had asked for a 15-month prison sentence, a year of supervised release, and a $95,000 fine. Huneeus had asked for two months in jail.

According to a criminal complaint, Huneeus worked with Singer on a fraudulent water polo profile for his daughter, and when they couldn’t locate a suitable photo of her playing the sport, Singer used someone else. In one call detailed in court documents, Huneeus expressed concern over “this thing blow(ing) up in my face.” Singer replied that it “hasn’t in 24 years.”

Huneeus was one the few parents in the scandal who implicated his daughter, the San Francisco Chronicle reported by informing her about the cheating scheme. Prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum that Huneeus “embraced the fraud” by including his daughter.

The vintner stepped down as CEO of Huneeus Vinters after he was indicted in March.

Parents Gregory and Marcia Abbott were each sentenced to a month in prison

According to court documents, the girl’s ACT score jumped from a 23 to 35, and her math and literature SAT score went from mid-600s to a perfect 800 math score and a 710 in literature.

Prosecutors had initially asked for the Abbotts to both be sentenced to a year and a day in prison, a year of supervised release, and a fine of $55,000. At their sentencing, prosecutors asked for eight months in prison. Their lawyers asked for no time in prison.

Sartorio is a Bay Area entrepreneur from Menlo Park, California and is the co-founder of Elena’s Food Specialities. According to a criminal complaint filed in March, Sartorio’s daughter scored a 27 out of a possible 36 on the ACT with the help of two corrupt protectors enlisted by Rick Singer. The score put Sartorio’s daughter in the 86th percentile of test-takers. While that was her first time taking the ACT, the marks were a noticeable improvement over scores she received on a PSAT test she had taken previously where she landed between the 42nd and 51st percentiles. Prosecutors say Sartorio made three separate cash payments to Singer between June 16 and June 20, 2017, totaling $15,000.

During Sartorio’s sentencing, Assistant US Attorney Kristen Kearney said the food entrepreneur “shouldn’t get a discount just because he isn’t as wealthy or as well known as his codefendants,” according to Law360 reporter Chris Villani.

Later in the hearing, Sartori apologized for his actions.

“I recognize what I did was wrong. I offer no excuses, there’s no justifications for those actions,” Sartorio said.

The probation sentencing came despite a request from prosecutors for jail time. Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence Sartotio to one month in jail and pay a $9,500 fine, which would have come out to the same jail time requested for actress Felicity Huffman.

Prosecutors had asked that she be sentenced to six months in prison. Her lawyers asked for a year of probation, a fine, and community service.

Prosecutors say the proctor who took the ACT for Buckingham’s son exam got him a 35 out of 36, ranking in the 96th percentile nationally, the Associated Press reported.

Buckingham has apologized for her role in the scheme, saying she has “absolutely no excuse.”

She was the final parent who pleaded guilty to be sentenced by Judge Indira Talwani in the college admissions scandal.

Parent Jeffrey Bizzack was sentenced to 2 months in prison

California businessman Jeffrey Bizzack.

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California businessman Jeffrey Bizzack, of Solana Beach, California, was sentenced to two months in prison for paying Singer $250,000 to have his son admitted into USC as a purported volleyball recruit.

He was also ordered to serve three years on supervised release and pay a $250,000 fine.

Insurance executive Toby MacFarlane, 56, of Del Mar, California, was sentenced to six months in prison after admitting to paying $450,000 to secure his daughter’s and son’s admissions to USC as purported soccer and basketball recruits.

He was also sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to complete 200 hours of community service and pay a $150,000 fine.

MacFarlane pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in June.

Judge Nathaniel Gorton, who oversaw Hodge’s case, said at the sentencing, according to Law 360 reporter Chris Vilani: “There is no term in the English language that describes your conduct as well as the Yiddish term ‘Chutzpah,'” which, by definition, means “shameless audacity.”

Hodge pleaded guilty in October, admitting to paying more than $500,000 in bribes to facilitate the University of Southern California athletic recruitments of his daughter and one of his sons in 2013 and 2015.

Prosecutors said Hodge’s interactions with college admissions scandal ringleader William “Rick” Singer date back years.

According to the criminal complaint, Hodge first contacted Singer in 2008 to ask for help on his daughter’s application to Georgetown University. Court documents say Hodge also contacted Singer in 2018 to discuss his youngest son’s admission to Loyola Marymount University.

At Hodge’s sentencing, prosecutors asked for Hodge to be sentenced to two years in prison, saying his bribes to Singer spanned a decade.

“There is no parent sentenced to date who benefited more from Singer’s scheme than Doug Hodge,” prosecutors said.

In a statement he read in court, Hodge said he had the “deepest remorse” for his actions, and said they came from a place of love for his children.

“I am committed to doing all that I possibly can to earn forgiveness for those I have wronged — including my own children — and to repair the harm my actions may have caused,” he said.

Former University of Texas at Austin tennis coach Michael Center was sentenced to 6 months in prison.

Michael Center.

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Michael Center, the former head coach of the men’s tennis team at the University of Texas at Austin, was sentenced to six months in prison for accepting a $100,000 bribe in the college admissions scandal.

Center was also given one year of supervised release, ordered to forfeit $60,000, and fined $20,000.

The former tennis coach pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in April 2019, admitting to accepting a bribe to secure the admission of a purported student-athlete to UT Austin.

Parent Michelle Janavs was sentenced to 5 months in prison.

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Michelle Janavs, whose family’s company developed Hot Pockets, was sentenced to five months in prison for paying $300,000 to have her daughters’ ACT answers falsified and have one of them recruited to USC as a purported volleyball recruit.

Janavs, of Newport Coast, California, was also given two years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine.

Prosecutors had called for Janavs to be sentenced to 21 months in prison.

Janavs pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

She was also ordered to pay a $200,000 fine and conduct 300 hours of community service. Upon leaving prisons he will face two years of supervised release.

Henriquez and her husband, Manuel Henriquez, have pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal, admitting to paying $50,000 to have their older daughter’s SAT exam answers falsified and paying $400,000 to guarantee their younger daughter’s admission to Georgetown University as a purported tennis recruit.

Henriquez has until June 30 to report to prison. At her sentencing, Judge Nathaniel Gorton told her he has “every confidence” that the novel coronavirus pandemic would subside by then.

“I will not forfeit the obligation of a federal judge to impose a sentence that is warranted by the defendant’s conduct, here, that is a period of incarceration,” he said of future sentencings, according to Law 360 reporter Chris Villani.

Parent Xiaoning Sui was given time served after spending 5 months in a Spanish jail in connection to college admissions scandal charges

Xiaoning Sui leaves the federal courthouse after entering a plea in connection with a nationwide college admissions cheating scheme in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., February 21, 2020.

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Xiaoning Sui, 48, of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, was sentenced to time served for paying Singer $400,000 to facilitate her son’s admission to the University of California, Los Angeles, as a purported soccer recruit.

Sui was arrested in Spain on September 16, 2019, in connection to the college admissions scandal. She was held in a Spanish jail for five months ahead of her Boston plea hearing in February 2020.

In February she agreed to plead guilty to one count of federal programs bribery.

US District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock sentenced her to time served on May 18, for the time she spent in the Spanish jail. She was ordered to pay a fine of $250,000 and agreed to forfeit the $400,000 that she paid Singer to facilitate the crime.

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Pace University coach accidentally smashes player’s face with bat

The Pace University baseball coach accidentally cracked two bones in a player’s face with a bat after the team lost a doubleheader — and didn’t call for an ambulance to take the bloodied teen to a hospital, witnesses told The Post.

Veteran manager Hank Manning, 51, was ranting during a locker-room huddle March 8 after the team lost a twin bill to rival New York Institute of Technology when he swung a bat, hitting a freshman sitting close behind him.

“He was quite angry. He was cursing, red in the face, raising his voice,” a player said.

It was “nothing out of the ordinary” until Manning wielded a flat-bat, which is cut in half lengthwise down the barrel with sharp edges and used for practice.

“He was going to throw it into a wall, but held onto it for too long. It looked like he was taking a swing. Maybe he tried to stop himself.”

Before the coach could slow the momentum, the wooden bat struck the player, student-athletes said.

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“It looked like he had a hole in his face,” one said of the injured player, who seemed to be shock.

“He was bleeding pretty badly,” another said, describing a two- to three-inch gash below the player’s left eye.

“A centimeter higher and he’d probably be blind,” the teammate said. “He’s lucky to have his sight.”

Upsetting players further, Manning simply blurted, “F–k” after the mishap, and walked into his office.

He popped his head out 20 minutes later, with the team and two assistant coaches still present, and said, “That shows my intensity,” a player said. He then returned to his office and closed the door.

But Manning and the assistant coaches, Pete Raimondi and Tim Bausher, didn’t call 911 or summon an ambulance.

Instead, Raimondi cleaned blood from the player and asked a teammate to drive the injured player to the hospital in the teammate’s car.

The Post is withholding the injured athlete’s name.

The father of a fellow player, Vincent Scotto, was so outraged by the coach’s alleged conduct he filed a complaint with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, asking for an independent investigation of Manning and Pace’s handling of the incident.

“I entrusted my son with him and what he did was reckless,” said Scotto, a former NYPD officer. “This was an egregious act that victimized every student-athlete in that locker room. It was not properly investigated, and students are afraid to speak out because of potential retribution.”

Pace spokeswoman Marie Boster said a university probe by its own security officer found no wrongdoing.

“I’m very concerned that an episode that was deemed to be an accident by all parties is going to turn into a blemish on a coach and a sports program that doesn’t deserve it,” she said.

“The appropriate policies and procedures had been followed,” Boster said, but she would not explain the Pace protocol, if any, for calling an ambulance for an injured athlete. She also refused to say who the coach contacted after the accident or when.

The Pace security office did not interview any students besides the injured player, teammates believe. “We felt (the incident) was being covered up,” one said.

The next day the team held practice without the injured player. Manning “acted as if nothing had happened,” a teammate said.

Manning apologized to some players. “He said his emotions got the best of him and it was unacceptable,” one recalled.

The injured athlete has told friends he plans to transfer from Pace — and will need plastic surgery for a facial scar.

Dozens in Hong Kong protest U.S. police violence

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Dozens of people gathered in front of the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest the death of American George Floyd, who died when a white police officer in Minneapolis knelt on his neck.

The protesters, mainly international students and members of Hong Kong’s League of Social Democrats, a political advocacy group for human rights, stood in pouring rain holding photos of Floyd and signs that read “Black Lives Matter”, a movement against racial injustice that has gone global in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic since Floyd’s death on May 25.

“It’s important get our message across to others around the world to remind them that even though we are far away, we are with them 100% in spirit – black lives matter,” 28-year-old Quinland Anderson, who is British, said while holding a “BLM” banner.

Floyd died after a white officer detaining him knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes as other officers stood nearby.

The protest in Hong Kong came after thousands of people took to the streets in European and Asian cities on Saturday, demonstrating in support of U.S. protests against police brutality. Tens of thousands of people marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House in Washington D.C. later in the day.

Police reminded protesters of Hong Kong’s limit of eight people per gathering, a rule put in place as the city seeks to contain the coronavirus.

The protesters left peacefully after reading a speech to the consul general condemning police brutality and racism.

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s top editor is resigning after an uproar over a headline lamenting damage to businesses amid turbulent protests denouncing police brutality against people of color, the paper announced Saturday.

The newspaper said Stan Wischnowski, 58, was stepping down as senior vice president and executive editor.

The Inquirer had apologized for a “horribly wrong” decision to use the headline, “Buildings Matter, Too,” on a column Tuesday about looting and vandalism on the margins of protests of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis at the hands of a white police officer.

The backlash came as The New York Times was widely criticized for publishing an opinion piece by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton advocating the use of federal troops to quell the protests.

About 30 members of the Inquirer’s 210-member editorial staff called in sick earlier this week, and black staff members angrily condemned the headline. It appeared over an article by architecture cr itic Inga Saffron, who worried that buildings damaged in violence over the past week could “leave a gaping hole in the heart of Philadelphia.”

The Inquirer drew fresh scorn after it replaced that headline online with one that read, “Black Lives Matter. Do Buildings?” Eventually, the newspaper settled on “Damaging buildings disproportionately hurt the people protesters are trying to uplift.”

The Inquirer published an apology from senior editors. Publisher and CEO Lisa Hughes said in a memo to staff that the headline was “offensive and inappropriate” and said the newspaper needed a more diverse workforce.

Wischnowski had worked at the Inquirer for 20 years and was editor when the paper won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for an in-depth investigation into violence within Philadelphia schools.

He will formally leave the newspaper June 12. Hughes did not immediately name a successor.